[brlcad-news] Introducing our 2012 GSoC Students

[Christopher S. M. <br...@ma...>]

For BRL-CAD's fourth year participating in the Google Summer of Code [1], we expanded our involvement and accepted a record 11 students.  Predominantly evaluated on the student's ability to develop, communicate, and interact, their proposals were selected from among more than 50 received as exceptional candidate developers for BRL-CAD. A categorized summary of this year's projects [2] is as follows:

	Code refactoring & cleanup
		• Ksenija Slivko: source code reduction
		• Anoop Malav: image processing infrastructure
		• Andrei Popescu: networking library infrastructure

	Hybrid modeling support
		• Anurag Murty: voxelize geometry
		• Laijiren: tessellate NURBS (to polygonal mesh)
		• Chris Dueck: volume and centroid extensions
		• Wu Jianbang: Dual-representation (Implicit & NURBS) objects

	Interface development
		• Mesut Oezdogan: portable GUI infrastructure
		• Suryajith Chillara: BRL-CAD Benchmark website
		• Cristina Precup: visualizing construction hierarchies
		• Alex Taylor: physical simulation infrastructure

Our GSoC 2012 page [2] has additional details on the students, development logs for tracking their individual progress, and their summary project pages.  See our website announcement [3] for more details.

[1] http://brlcad.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code
[2] http://brlcad.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2012
[3] http://brlcad.org/d/node/98